#391: Brandee Danielle Huston // Hamilton Broadway's Hair Supervisor // Part One
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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aBrandee Danielle Huston is currently the Hair Supervisor at Hamilton Broadway, and has been in the entertainment industry her entire life. She grew up in a 5th generation carnival concession business and has been working since she was two years old. Inspired by painting people's faces at carnivals, she started working in theatre, and when she saw that there was a job in fixing the Santa beards for the famous Rockettes show and she thought, "Why am I not doing THIS?!" Brandee did everything from pushing boxes backstage, electrical work, sound, handling props, driving a forklift, you name it... all while going to cosmetology school. There's not a guidebook for breaking into the industry and working with the unions but this episode is definitely a very good start.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage and Stages, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilkast. |
| 0:05.1 | Bootsing, cut, sent, pussing! |
| 0:18.7 | Hello everyone, welcome back to The Hamilkast. I'm Jillian. I'm super excited today. I am here |
| 0:23.6 | with Brandy Danielle Houston, the hair supervisor at Hamilton. Hey Brandy. |
| 0:28.5 | Hi. Thanks for being here. Of course. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:32.0 | Absolutely. Before we say anything else, can you please tell the listeners your pronouns? |
| 0:36.2 | Sheer. Thank you so much. Your bio is absolutely unbelievable. I'm not going to read it to you |
| 0:44.9 | because, first of all, you know it, you lived it. But just so the listeners know, I mean, |
| 0:48.5 | we'll get into all of this. You have over 12 years of experience in theater, print, |
| 0:54.2 | fashion film, hair and makeup artist. You grew up in a fifth generation carnival concession |
| 0:58.9 | business. You know the entertainment industry through and through. You've been on the stage, |
| 1:04.0 | behind the stage and next to the stage. So I'm really, really excited to just hear your whole |
| 1:10.0 | life story, your Hamilton story, everything in between before, during, after. I'm just psyched |
| 1:14.2 | to really spend this afternoon with you. So thank you for being here. Yeah. Thank you. |
| 1:18.5 | You are now, you're working on Broadway, the Hamilton Company on Broadway. I am. Yes. |
| 1:23.3 | So can you let the listeners know exactly what a hair supervisor does? |
| 1:26.7 | Sure. We're supposed to call it a department head specifically, but people say both ways. |
| 1:33.7 | I think it's kind of funny when people say like a head of hair, you know, department head of |
| 1:39.0 | hair. I'm like, okay. Everyone relax. Yeah. So basically I do everything from go and get the |
| 1:48.3 | wigs from the studio. I do a lot of a look at the design and I'll recreate what the designer wants |
| 1:57.3 | or the associate designer wants. I do some cutting. I do some designing. Yeah. I do, I do a lot |
| 2:08.7 | when it comes to like the creative and like hands-on portion of things. We have about 56 wigs. |
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